ERICA Broadleyana. 
DESCRIPTIO» 
Anthers muticae, inclusae : flores solitarii, penduli, 
in medio ramorum spicam laxam formantes : pedunculi 
longi, colorati, bracteis tribus infra minutis: corolla 
metulaeformis, rubro-purpurea, laciniis exiguis, erectis, 
luteis: folia terna, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra, fas» 
eiculata: caulis erectus, fragilis, sesquipedalis, frutico* 
sus: ramulis numerosis. 
DESCRIPTION» 
Tips beardless, within the blossom s flowers grow 
singly, hanging down, and forming a loose spike about 
the middle of the branches: footstalks long, and co» 
loured with three minute floral leaves on the lower part: 
blossom skittle-shaped, and of a red purple $ the seg¬ 
ments of the border small, upright, and yellow : leaves 
by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, smooth, and bundled 
together : stem upright, brittle, a foot and a half high, 
and shrubby e . small branches numerous. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom during the autumnal months» 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement. 
2. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal, one tip magnified 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified» 
